astringent

astringent has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

• a.. Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit.
• a.. Stern; austere; as, an astringent type of virtue.
• n.. A medicine or other substance that produces contraction in the soft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc.
• n.. a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals
• a.. tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue; "astringent cosmetic lotions"
• a.. sour or bitter in taste